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First screenshot is from here.
Second screenshot is from me updating an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system today.
Post title is from https://web.archive.org/web/20130223104643/https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/about-ubuntu/C/about-ubuntu-name.html via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
This is a supported release which still gets (some) security updates for free.
But these are Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) updates; I guess Canonical realized that the only users who really need security updates for things like
libavcodecandimagemagickare those who might want to be able to safely load video or image files found on the internet (eg, enterprise users). Makes sense, right? /sIn their defense, it's free for personal use. If they want to milk enterprise clients who can't be bothered updating their systems, who cares
Or you can just update the system to a more recent version? Backporting fixes can't be effortless.
Yeah this kind of seems like complaining that RHEL costs money. If you want the absolute latest packages there's always rolling release. It's Linux, so if you don't trust Canonical you can always just assemble your very own system out of thousands of packages that are constantly updating and breaking each other.
I think you might be misunderstanding what this is. This isn't Canonical holding back freely-available updates to charge you money. This is Canonical doing additional work backporting fixes themselves. On any other distro with old ass packages, you'd be in the same spot just without the option of the ESM updates at all. Also Pro is free for like 5 or 10 machines for non-enterprise users so tell your boss to stop being a cheap ass if they care about security.